Rayman Raving Rabbids

This article is about the game on home consoles. For the game on handheld consoles, see Rayman Raving Rabbids (handheld game).

Rayman Raving Rabbids
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Developer(s)	Ubisoft Montpellier Ubisoft Sofia (PC)
Publisher(s)	Ubisoft
Director(s)	Patrick Bodard Jacques Exertier Yoan Fanise Florent Sacré
Producer(s)	Pierre-Arnaud Lambert
Artist(s)	Florent Sacré
Writer(s)	Jacques Exertier
Composer(s)	Mark Griskey
Series	Rayman Rabbids
Engine	Jade
Platform(s)	Wii PlayStation 2 Windows Xbox 360
Release	Wii NA: November 19, 2006 AU: December 7, 2006 EU: December 8, 2006 PlayStation 2 NA: December 5, 2006 AU: December 7, 2006 EU: December 8, 2006 Windows AU: December 7, 2006 EU: December 8, 2006 NA: December 11, 2006 Xbox 360 EU: April 6, 2007 NA: April 24, 2007
Genre(s)	Party
Mode(s)	Single-player, multiplayer

Rayman Raving Rabbids is a 2006 party video game developed and published by Ubisoft. It's a spinoff for the Rayman series and the debut title for the Rabbids franchise. The story follows Rayman as he was interrupted by earthquake in which then he was being kidnapped and forced to played minigames with the Rabbids. The game received generally positive reviews from critics, with some criticizing the minigames either being broken or unenjoyable.

Gameplay

Rayman Raving Rabbids is a party video game in which omit as Rayman, the player was assigned to played minigames and takes advantage of motion controls and comedy elements. The minigames are designed to be short and some have multiplayer support. In single-player mode, the player have to tossing in variants of minigames that they already played and each segment fall into four minigames or at least three.

Minigames fall into one of four categories: Bunny Hunt, Sports, Challenges, and 'Shake your Booty!' dancing. Bunny Hunt comprises first-person rail shooter stages, all appearing in Story Mode as "boss" stages that the player may play for Score, Time, or Survival with the goal of obtaining the highest score possible with only one life. Two players can participate in Co-op Bunny Hunt, but Survival is not available for multiplayer. The Sports minigames can be played for Workout, which requires rapid movement of the Wii Remote, and Precision, which involves the controls of the remote. Sports minigames also include 'Get Going!' racing stages, including four warthog racing games and a skydiving race. Challenges are various games found in Score Mode which must be played one after the other with the goal of a high combined score in a Triathlon, Pentathlon, or Decathlon. The 'Shake your Booty!' category involves dance-themed minigames and are found in Story Mode each day. Also, there are "Skill" minigames that do not fall under any of the other categories. Variations of the mini-games are featured in the DS version. Games such as "Feed the bunnies", "Ghost hunt", "Bunny invasion", "Stop the mines" and "Super Rabbid" are used. The stylus is used for all of the minigames, unlike the rest of the gameplay.

Plot

Rayman was having a picnic with Globox's local children. The picnic is interrupted by an earthquake and the Globox's children sink into the ground and transform into Rabbids. The Rabbids' commander Sergueï kidnaps Rayman and throws him in an arena with Rabbids. Rayman must complete his first trials now, and afterwards Sergueï takes him to his cell and gives him a plunger. Initially the Rabbids jeer him however, as Rayman completes more trials, they became bored, and eventually he becomes popular among the Rabbids as they cheer him. In addition, they also make his jail cell more hospitable.

Eventually, Rayman amasses a collection of plungers as rewards for completing the trials. By building a ladder of his plungers to reach the window and settling with a bird who defecating on him, Rayman manages to escape and free himself. Once liberated, he remembers the Globox's children and attempts to return through one of the Rabbid holes to rescue them, but winds up getting stuck in the hole. In a post-credits scene, Rayman is still stuck in the hole through the night, and sheep come to eat the leftovers of his picnic.

Development

In 2005, Phoenix Interactive Entertainment, a studio who also developed King Kong for the Playstation Portable initially began development of Rayman 4. The game was intended to capture elements from the 1995 video game Rayman and the characters are self-aware that they exist inside a video game and being controlled by players from the outside world. The game used Pixar as the main source of inspiration for the plot. During development of the game, Nintendo unveiled their new console The Wii which members of Ubisoft worried the seventh generation consoles could give negative effects to the performance of the game, and made the decision to restart development. On October 2017, series' creator Michel Ancel posted on Instagram that he wants the game to happen.

Reception

Reception

Aggregate score

Aggregator	Score
Metacritic	Wii: 76/100 PS2: 64/100 PC: 58/100 X360: 67/100

Award

Publication	Award
Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences	Family Game of the Year and Outstanding Achievement in Animation

The game received mixed positive reviews from critics. IGN writer Matt Casamassina complimented the game's "sick sense of humor" and a heavy emphasis on fun, as well as the design of the bunnies and the game in general. Reviews highlighted the story, music and sound, and said that gameplay is addictive and optimized for the Wii. A few critics claimed that other developers of Wii launch titles had simply ported their games and "tacked on" Wii controls. It is one of the highest-selling third party games for the Wii. The game was subsequently released on other platforms, including the PC, PS2, and Xbox 360. Reviewers in general found these versions to play at an inferior level to the Wii version due to the game's controls having been optimized with the Wii in mind.

External links

• Rayman Raving Rabbids (PlayStation 2, Windows, Wii) at MobyGames
• Rayman Raving Rabbids (JSME) at MobyGames